spiders

Researchers from Yale-NUS College and Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that tarantulas have the ability to see in color, contrary to previous thought

Two pain blocking peptides were found in the venom from the Venezuelan Pinkfoot Goliath tarantula

Arctic spiders typically take several years to become adults, and only produce one clutch of offspring

Raging winds can demolish trees, defoliate entire canopies, and scatter debris across forest floors, radically altering the habitats and reshaping the selective pressures on many organisms

The vision of jumping spiders is nearly as keen in babies as adults, a University of Cincinnati study found

Horseshoe crabs were thought to be ancestors of the arachnids, but molecular sequence data have always been sparse enough to cast doubt

From fish to flowering plants and seahorses to snakes—spanning five continents and three oceans—these new discoveries grow Earth's tree of life

Spiders take flight on the smallest of breezes by first sensing the wind, and then spinning out dozens of nanoscale fibers up to seven meters long

Researchers show that the common house spider and its arachnid relatives have dispensed with a gene involved in creating segmented heads, instead recycling leg genes to accomplish the task

An extraordinary new species of arachnid has been discovered in amber from Myanmar and dates to the mid-Cretaceous age, around 100 million years ago